There's always been this tension between the agile and architecture camps. Many agilists focus on delivering business value and iterating quickly. Many architects focus on non-functional requirements - experience has taught them that a system may need to be rewritten otherwise. What both camps don’t always realize is that the purpose of their actions is really about managing risk. Join Udi Dahan for a irreverent romp through agile principles, architectural “best practices”, and the organizational dysfunction that binds them.

At the end of November, WIRED launches its debut pop-up store and gallery -- in partnership with Samsung SMART TV -- which will take over the beautiful Quadrant Arcade off Regent Street.

This weeklong pop-up will bring the pages of WIRED to life -- with exhibits, live demonstrations and a programme of daytime and evening cultural events bringing the visionary WIRED world together to celebrate the space where "design meets technology" to make new ideas and creative innovations possible.

The store will also offer the opportunity to order a selection of unusual and limited edition products that have caught the eye of the WIRED team.

In this Enterprise Software Developer course you'll learn all about building software within an enterprise environment - in a structured, lightweight and pragmatic way. It's about good software development practices in a team environment and covers topics such as the effective use of source code control, automated unit testing, continuous integration and load testing.

Upon completion of this Enterprise Software Developer course you will know how to use source code control and branching to manage change, write automated unit and integration tests for confidence when refactoring and how to create an automated build script to manage release complexity and provide release consistency.

Join Simon's course to learn how to setup a continuous integration server to ensure continual quality control, make your software production ready for release and you will understand why configuration management is important and how to integrate it into your project.

LEARN HOW TO:Use source code control and branching to manage changeWrite automated unit and integration tests for confidence when refactoring and increased qualityCreate an automated build script to manage release complexity and provide release consistencySetup a continuous integration server to ensure continual quality controlMake your software production ready for releaseUnderstand why configuration management is important and how to integrate it into your projectWrite a load test script to undertake performance testingUnderstand how to handover your system to an operational environment

***For a full course breakdown and registration please visit:http://skillsmatter.com/course/design-architecture/simon-brown-enterprise-software-developer/mh-5415

Simon lives in Jersey and is an independent consultant, the founder of Coding the Architecture and either a software architect who codes or a software developer who understands architecture. Having successfully delivered a variety of projects on the Microsoft .NET and Java platforms, Simon now also regularly speaks to and teaches audiences across Europe about software architecture and its role in modern software development teams. He is also the author of Software Architecture for Developers, which is being published incrementally through Leanpub. He still writes code too.

A collection of beautiful and Romantic portraits by Irene Jones. With their soft and elegant muted colours, the delightful Tudor-esque portraits capture the playfulness of eternal youth and the poignant moments from each of the characters lives. Irene Jones has previously exhibited at the V&A, the Royal West of England Academy and the Bristol Academy.

In 2012, now that further de-regulation has taken place, the #MVNOIS team are excited to release the 6th event in the series – MVNOs Industry Summit Middle East.

The event will assess the readiness of a wholesale market which after initial opening up to MVNOs resumed a more cautious relationship with third party telcos. Now, again, market activity is taking place. As such, we look forward to presenting our two day agenda with the CEO of Friendi Mobile already confirmed as a keynote and issues of international MVNO expansion, working with local regulators, operators and investors covered. International best practice case studies will be showcased and analyst analysis of local MVNO and wholesale landscapes will be delivered.

MVNOs Industry Summit Middle East is co-located with the 16th Prestigious Middle East Telco World Summit, offering fantastic business and networking opportunities under one roof.

This advanced and highly intensive workshop, focuses on how to best build large scale distributed systems. You will learn a range of techniques on how to avoid common pitfalls in distributed systems and use loosely coupled messaging communication.

Throughout the course you will have access to lectures, simulation exercises and group discussions, where you will have the freedom of drawing on your own projects and discussing problems you face in your daily role, with other software professionals on the course.

You will find the course useful if you would like to gain insight into the main issues of model-based development as well as learning advanced techniques and principles of building scalable systems. Not only that, but you will have the opportunity to fire any questions you may have to Udi Dahan who is one of the 33 leading experts in Europe, recognised by the International .NET Association (INETA), an author and trainer for the International Association of Software Architects on Reliability, Availability, and Scalability, and on SOA, Web Services.

The attic workshop of the first hero of the British Industrial Revolution, the engineer James Watt, will be opened up to visitors as part of a new permanent Science Museum exhibition, James Watt and our world: opening on 23 March 2011. Accompanied by a new gallery of previously unseen objects and innovative multimedia, the exhibition will present a vivid portrait of the working life, ingenuity and character of the first mechanical engineer to be propelled to international fame and spoken of in the same breath as national heroes like Isaac Newton and William Shakespeare.

When Watt died in 1819, his workshop at his home near Birmingham, was locked and its contents left undisturbed as an ‘industrial shrine’. Then, in 1924, the complete workshop, including its door, window, skylight, floorboards and 6,500 objects used or created by Watt, were carefully removed and transported to the Science Museum. Although the workshop has previously been displayed at the Museum, visitors have never been invited inside until now. The vast majority of its contents, once hidden within drawers, on shelves and under piles of tools and papers are now revealed. The new display sets Watt’s life and work alongside his iconic early steam engines which line the Museum’s Energy Hall.

James Watt was seen by contemporaries as the founder of the Industrial Revolution. His improved engine meant that steam could be used everywhere, not just in coal mines, boosting output in breweries, potteries and textile mills. It drove Britain’s factories, pumped its mines and helped start a long surge in prosperity.

Watt was the first engineer to be honoured by a statue in Westminster Abbey and was even called ’the greatest benefactor of the human race’. On his death, the workshop became a place of pilgrimage for historians. His biographer J.P. Muirhead, wrote, the ‘garret and all its mysterious contents…seemed still to breathe of the spirit that once gave them life and energy’.

This exhibition puts Watt in the context of Britain’s emergence as the first industrial nation. Watt played a pivotal role in these events which opened the road to the consumer society of today... He was perhaps the first ‘scientific entrepreneur’, adept at ‘turning science into money’ and using his skills to generate wealth in a longstanding partnership with entrepreneur Matthew Boulton.

Watt’s workshop is packed with a bewildering array of objects including the world’s oldest circular saw, parts for flutes and violins he was making and even the oldest surviving pieces of sandpaper. The exhibition will also include a roller press developed by Watt to copy letters, a forerunner of the photocopier, and a device used to mint and standardise the size of coins for the first time, developed for the Royal Mint.

One of the key objects of the exhibition is Watt’s original 1765 model for the first separate condenser - in effect the greatest single improvement to the steam engine ever made. This unassuming brass cylinder, thought to be one of the most significant objects in engineering history, was only discovered at the Science Museum in the 1960’s – lying under Watt’s workbench. The object remained unrecognised until research by the Museum revealed its identity.

Ben Russell, Curator of Mechanical Engineering, at the Science Museum, said “I am delighted to see Watt’s Workshop given a prominent place again at the Science Museum. To Victorians, the workshop was a mystical retreat and we are hoping that visitors will be similarly enthralled and inspired today. It’s fascinating that we still don’t know the exact purpose of every item in the workshop and we will continue to research this. It was both a functioning workshop and a personal museum of things from his entire life which he had kept, perhaps out of sentiment, but also in case they might come in handy.”

Andrew Nahum, Principal Curator of Technology & Engineering at the Science Museum, said “The extraordinary thing about Watt’s story is that it represents the crucial moment at which industry took off and transformed our lives. In the 19th century, Watt’s improvements to the steam engine and the industry it drove was claimed as a powerful contribution to British strength and to Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon. Watt became a new kind of ‘industrial hero’. Today, Britain’s commerce no longer runs on steam and Watt is perhaps less well known so we are pleased to be celebrating his engineering genius once more.”

As a mark of their contribution, James Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton will be portrayed on the Bank of England’s forthcoming new £50 banknotes. In 1797 Boulton manufactured all Britain’s coins for the Bank with his new steam-powered machinery.

As Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, commented when he announced their planned inclusion on the note, “So many of the advantages society now enjoys are due to the vital role of engineering and the brilliance of people such as Boulton and Watt, whose development and refinement of steam engines gave an incredible boost to the efficiency of industry.”

The exhibition is supported by The DCMS/Wolfson Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund, with additional support from The Pilgrim Trust and the Helen and Geoffrey de Freitas Charitable Trust.